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This past weekend brought us more news about Endgame: The Search for More Money after Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday CinemaCon presentation revealed that it was heading for a re-release. Director Joe Russo, who co-helmed Endgame and is back for Doomsday, has now suggested fans won’t want to miss the former’s re-release in September as it will “create a bridge” with the latter.
“It’s critically important to re-release the movie, and, in fact, we’ll be re-releasing the film with footage that is set in the Doomsday story that we have added to Avengers: Endgame,” Russo told the crowd at the Sands Film Festival.
Russo didn’t address whether this meant that some of Endgame would be retconned to ensure Doomsday’s plot makes sense, but did say that the new version of Endgame is a “critical companion story” that sets up the fifth Avengers movie.
The news arrived just days after The Walt Disney Company announced huge layoffs that hit the visual development team at Marvel Studios hard.
The CinemaCon Doomsday footage apparently teased an Avengers vs X-Men scenario for the forthcoming Marvel blockbuster, in which Gambit fights Shang-Chi and Mystique fights Yelena Belova, while Thor attempts to attack Doctor Doom outside the X-Mansion but is easily thwarted. At the climax of the trailer, Chris Evans’s Captain America is said to show up and grab Mjolnir.
Robert Downey Jr. is coming back to the MCU to portray Doctor Doom in Doomsday. Russo told Deadline that the actor, who previously played Tony Stark aka Iron Man from 2008 to 2019, had been talking to them about returning for at least a couple of years before he settled on his preferred path.
“I was at dinner with him in New York, and he had mentioned to me that he was thinking about this, and the concept was for him to play the ultimate villain,” Russo revealed. “He played the ultimate hero, and now he’s going to play the ultimate villain. I thought it was a very clever idea.”
Avengers: Endgame will be re-released on September 25. Avengers: Doomsday is set for release on December 18.
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